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The Formation of Candomble
Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil"
Black Atlantic Religion
Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African culture in the Americas has most flourished among the urban and the prosperous, who, through travel, commerce, and literacy, were well exposed to other cultures. Their embrace of African religion is less a "survival," or inert residue of the African past, than a strategic choice in their circum-At...
Relocating the Sacred
Although Brazil is home to the largest African diaspora, the religions of its African descendants have often been syncretized and submerged, first under the force of colonialism and enslavement and later under the spurious banner of a harmonious national Brazilian character. Relocating the Sacred argues that these religions nevertheless have been preserved and manifested in a strategic corpus of shifting masks and masquerades of Afro-Brazilian identity. Following the re-Africanization process and black consciousness movement of the 1970s to 1990s, Afro-Brazilians have questioned racial democracy, seeing how its claim to harmony actually dispossesses them of political power. By embracing African deities as a source of creative inspiration and resistance, Afro-Brazilians have appropriated syncretism as a means of not only popularizing African culture but also decolonizing themselves from the past shame of slavery. This book maps the role of African heritage in—and relocation of the sacred to—three sites of Brazilian cultural production: ritual altars, literature, and carnival culture.
Denegrir
Denegrir, do ponto de vista semântico, indica a ação libertadora de conscientizar (-se) sobre a importância das relações afro-étnico-raciais. Numa perspectiva sintática, pode exercer a função de núcleo do predicado aliado à coragem singular e intransponível de compreender a importância da equidade racial. É estar livre das amarguras impostas pelo racismo através do ato político de tornar mais negro, escuro, enegrecido. Se denegrir é tornar negro, vamos ressignificá-lo para que jamais possa ser visto como algo ruim. Os textos aqui reunidos buscam denegrir a história ao fazer emergirem conteúdos que foram esquecido, silenciados ou tratados de forma equivocada. Por isso, pr...
Uma história da cidade da Bahia
Com seu texto dinâmico e inteligente, Antonio Risério traça um panorama dos cinco séculos da formação do povo baiano. Distante de preconceitos, Risério reuniu sua obra em cinco capítulos, um para cada século. Ele descreve os principais fatos e personagens da vida baiana, de sua formação política e econômica, da Colônia à geração do Cinema Novo e da Tropicália, na segunda metade do século XX, e chega aos dias de hoje, analisando as profundas mudanças vividas pela primeira capital do país.
Orí apéré ó
O Ritual das Águas de Oxalá nos revele o rito de nascimento de Orí no Aiyé, que deita raízes na tradição nagô. é esse rito que abre as atividades litúrgicas dos calendários das Casas de Axé, iniciando um ciclo em que se faz sempre presente a cor branca. Um texto envolvente, que nos convida a conhecer e receber a sabedoria de uma cerimônia de fundamento.
Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
Ilê Aiyê's unifying identity politics through Afro-Carnival performance, is embedded in its dialectical relationship with the rest of Brazil as it takes ownership of its oppressed status by striving for racial equality and economic empowerment. Against this complex background, performative theory offers significant new meanings. In ritualistically integrating Bakhtinian categories of free interaction, eccentric behavior, carnivalistic misalliances, and the sacrilegious, Ilê Aiyê anchors its social discourse on showcasing the black race as a critical agency of beauty, pride, wisdom, subversion, and negotiation. Ilê Aiyê carnival is not only racially conscious, it heightens the conflicts by dislocating the very establishment that invests in its cultural politics. In fusing the sacred, the profane, the performative, the musical, with the political, Ilê Aiyê succeeds in indicting racism, ironically sacrificing the very power it pursues. Despite these limitations, Ilê Aiyê creatively engages alternative dialogues on Brazilian politics through sponsored performances across transnational borders.
Identities in Flux
Drawing on historical and cultural approaches to race relations, Identities in Flux examines iconic Afro-Brazilian figures and theorizes how they have been appropriated to either support or contest a utopian vision of multiculturalism. Zumbi dos Palmares, the leader of a runaway slave community in the seventeenth century, is shown not as an anti-Brazilian rebel but as a symbol of Black consciousness and anti-colonial resistance. Xica da Silva, an eighteenth-century mixed-race enslaved woman who "married" her master and has been seen as a licentious mulatta, questions gendered stereotypes of so-called racial democracy. Manuel Querino, whose ethnographic studies have been ignored and virtually...
